Pittsburgh native Anne Marie Lewis has enjoyed a richly varied and long career in the performing arts. She has performed across the globe from Carnegie Hall to Boise to Little Rock to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula as well as in Canada, England and Scotland.

With the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s final novel, she performs Persuasion: A Musical Adaptation at Jane Austen festivals on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and in Bath, England in 2018.

Chicago area credits: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (Emma), Music Theater Works (Peter Pan, My Fair Lady, One Night in Venice, The Red Mill) Remy Bumppo Theatre Company (Northanger Abbey, The Skin of Our Teeth), Parker Players Theater (Art), Pride Films and Plays (Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream) Northbrook Theatre (Fancy Nancy, Elephant and Piggie: We are in a Play), Oil Lamp Theater (Love, Loss, and What I Wore), Refuge Theatre Project (bare), Lifeline Theatre (Midnight Cowboy), Chamber Opera Chicago (Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, The Sound of Music, Hansel and Gretel), Spartan Theatre (Jake’s Women), Jedlicka Performing Arts Center (Moon over Buffalo), Metropolis Performing Arts Center (The Diary of Anne Frank), Fury Theatre (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Provision Theater (Christmas on the Air), 16th Street Theatre (Graveyard of Empires), Chicago Opera Theatre (Shining Brow, Don Giovanni), and Idle Muse Theatre Company (The Scullery Maid), Music Theatre of Highland Park (Don Pasquale, La bohème, Die Fledermaus, Carmen).

Regional opera credits include Lyric Opera Cleveland (Little Women), Pine Mountain Music Festival (Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus), Battle Creek Symphony (Carmen, La bohème), Ann Arbor Symphony (Carmen), LaCrosse Symphony (Carmen), Arkansas Sympohony (La bohème), Muddy River Opera (Die Fledermaus), American Opera Theatre (Don Giovanni), Quad Cities Opera (La bohème), as well as numerous appearances with regional symphony orchestras.

International credits: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Buxton Fringe Festival, Camden Fringe Festival and Jane Austen 200 in Winchester, UK.

As an audiobook narrator, Anne Marie has been nominated for SOVAS Awards in various genres: self-help, mystery, humor and history. With audiobook narration, she gets to be producer, director, technical crew and all the characters!

Anne Marie is a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University and an even prouder mother to four wonderful and deeply talented young men. She loves her Five Guys (her four sons and her husband), her steadfast support system! She lives with her family in Chicago.